Just so stories, The Sing-song of Old Man Kangaroo, sentence 66
Nobody knows where they went, Or followed the track that they flew in, For that Continent Hadn’t been given a name.
Who acts: Nobody, legs · What happens: know, go, follow, fly in, not give · To what, where: track, Continent · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Sing-song of Old Man Kangaroo. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nobody, legs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 knows | nsubj |
| 2 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 5 went | advmod |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 knows | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 followed | punct |
| 7 | Or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 followed | cc |
| 8 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 knows | parataxis |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 track | det |
| 10 | track | track | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 followed | obj |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 flew | mark |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 flew | nsubj |
| 13 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 followed | advcl |
| 14 | in | in | ADV | _ | 13 flew | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 given | punct |
| 16 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 22 given | mark |
| 17 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 Continent | det |
| 18 | Continent | Continent | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 given | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | Had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 given | aux |
| 20 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 given | advmod |
| 21 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 given | aux:pass |
| 22 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 flew | conj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 name | det |
| 24 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 given | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 knows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | Nobody | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | go | past | legs = leg | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | follow | past | the track | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent track=Theme | |||||
| 4 | fly in | past | legs = leg | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | not give | past · perfect · passive | that Continent | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient name=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, Project Gutenberg book 2781 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/7/66/